It’s the last go-round for Swans as we’ve known the band over the last seven years, as leader Michael Gira* reassesses in which direction his musical path will veer. He drops a hint in a press release: “I seem to have the sound of a sustained chord in my mind—not the striking of the chord, but what hangs in the air after as it dissipates.” Whereas Swans began in the early 1980s as none-more-grim no wave nihilists, they’ve since transformed into sadistic electro mofos, bleak folk troubadours, radiant trance-rock dynamos, and mantric goth-rockers, with the common threads over the last 35 years being transcendence through repetition, remorseless intensity, and rejection of frippery. (* In 2016, Larkin Grimm—a musician who enlisted Gira to produce her 2008 album, Parplar—accused him of rape; Gira and his wife, Jennifer, vigorously denied the claim.) DAVE SEGAL

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